NEW DELHI: An Indian woman has said she warned Uber about the behavior of one of its drivers 10 days before he allegedly raped a young female passenger in Delhi.

Nidhi Shah said she complained to the web-based taxi service and received assurances it would investigate the driver, who is in police custody on suspicion of rape. Uber has been banned from operating in Delhi and accused of “cheating” passengers after it emerged it performed no background checks on the driver, who faced a string of earlier charges.

“I took a cab with Shiv Kumar Yadav in Delhi on Nov 26th. Scares me beyond belief,” Shah tweeted late Tuesday.

Shah told the NDTV news channel she felt she should report the driver to the company. “I had a bad feeling about him,” she said. She also tweeted the response from a customer services operator for Uber, which named the driver and said the complaint had been passed on to the relevant team and would be investigated.